HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Julius Rosenberg
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Joseph McCarthy
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John F. Kennedy
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Francis Gary Powers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soviet intelligence learned of the VENONA program in 1949 through its highly-placed British agent, Kim Philby, but there was nothing they could do to stop it. The program was finally formally terminated on October 1, 1980.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cables deciphered by VENONA show that 349 American citizens, immigrants, and permanent residents had been recruited to spy for the Soviet Union. largely unbroken, VENONA revealed an additional 100 names that appeared to be cover names for spies within the United States. Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Venona documents unmistakably identified Julius Rosenberg as the head of a Soviet spy ring and David Greenglass, his brother-in-law, as a Soviet source at the secret atomic bomb facility at Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -Venona was a top-secret U.S. effort to gather and decrypt messages sent in the 1940s by agents of what is now called the KGB and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency.
Detailed explanation-5: -While the Venona Project was largely a success for the United States, it did have limitations. Messages were difficult to decipher, and the project did not decode messages in real time. In the earliest years of the project, code breakers worked on intercepts that were two and three years old.